Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
When Rek'Sai is near, she can see the position of you and your allies, but only if you're moving.
If you see one of Rek'Sai's tunnels, briefly stand on one of the entrances to destroy it.
Rek'Sai's Furious Bite gains damage as she builds Fury. Be very careful around her when her Fury is full.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several valuable Xin Zhao vs. Rek'Sai counter statistics that can help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rek'Sai..
Xin Zhao often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Rek'Sai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually wins when playing against Rek'Sai, with a 52.5% win rate. Therefore, Xin Zhao makes a good counter to Rek'Sai.
While Xin Zhao does have a higher win rate than Rek'Sai, when on opposite teams, Xin Zhao also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Xin Zhao into Rek'Sai.
Moreover, Xin Zhao has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rek'Sai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Rek'Sai matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Xin Zhao is an above average counter for Rek'Sai. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Xin Zhao against Rek'Sai.
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao in order to counter Rek'Sai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rek'Sai. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Xin Zhao versus Rek'Sai build consist of Spear of Shojin, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Rek'Sai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 52.5% when countering Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Rek'Sai as Xin Zhao, Xin Zhao players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Xin Zhao vs Rek'Sai clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
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